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From this piece on Trump’s acrimony re: mainstream reporting:
The board that administers Pulitzer Prizes denied former President Trump’s request to revoke the prizes that the Washington Post and the New York Times won in 2018 for their reports on the Trump campaign and his administration’s ties to Russian interference in the presidential election. (more…)
When my kids were little, I explained a summary of American politics to them like this:
If you have an honest concern for everyone on this planet, now and into the future, you’re a Democrat. This means you believe that government needs to help with things like good education, clean air and water, and healthcare. (more…)
A reader notes: “Go home now…We love you…You’re very special.” Q. Is that something you would say to somebody who just attacked your house??
Perhaps indeed.
Keep in mind, however that voters in states that are economic and moral hellholes are almost completely unconcerned about “quality of life” as you and I might define it. They want their state white, Christian, deregulated, science-blind, and patriarchal, and as long as that’s in place, their senators can do whatever they want.
This is an interesting observation.
One wonders about the future of monotheism in a world that is increasingly scientific, though barbaric at the same time.
Personally, I don’t think that individual horrific periods of time, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, that are conducted under the name of Christianity, have any real bearing on its future.
So many emotions–all negative–apply to life in today’s United States.
Most people are angry, having watched a common criminal become and remain the most important figure in American politics. They know that millions of our soldiers fought and died to preserve our liberty and protect our Constitution, only to have it reduced to rubble, right before our eyes.
Sadness works too.
Anyone who thinks things have improved since the Obama days is kidding himself.
And now, we’re talking about issues that are far less supportable than they were in 2008.
Texas is suing the federal government because the state’s OBGYN doctors are forced to perform abortions if they are required to save the life of the mother.
We’re banning books.
Congress is blocking the progress that the nation could be making in climate change mitigation.
It’s mass stupidity.
Meet Mildred Lisette Norman, aka the Peace Pilgrim, an American spiritual teacher, mystic, and peace activist for 28 years during the mid-20th Century.
She walked across the United States, speaking with others about peace, and was on her seventh cross-country journey when she died.
Sure, that sounds bad, but it really depends on how one defines “quality of life.” If affluence, education, and health mean a great deal, then, yeah, there are 48 states in which you’ll fare better.
If you want to see women and non-white men lead even s***ier and more oppressed lives than yours, then you’re in heaven, my friend.
We’re a country at war with itself, in so many different ways.
As suggested here is the battle being fought between our nation’s gun nuts and its parents of school-age kids.
Parents will do anything to protect their children, but the National Rifle Association is undeterred; the NRA will do everything in its power to ensure that insane people can carry assault weapons.
So far, the NRA is way out on top. Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured.
